Repentance at Leisure

So
fast that the nation scarcely had time to notice, a Congress which has
done many things to business finally did something important for
business last week. One day the House Ways and Means Committee received
from its taxperts a series of amendments to the Excess Profits Tax. By
this week the amendments had been approved by the Committee, passed by
the House and the Senate, sent to the President.

Least edifying sight of Washington's muggy summer of 1940 was the
skedaddling, ten-thumbed carpentry of Congress in slapping together the
Excess Profits...